Spider Update

I am very upset.

Another spider has attacked our home and compromised my sanity. This time Tyler wasn't home and I wasn't so lucky to kill it with one shot. Spider Killer, though it says it "Kills on Contact!" does not indeed kill on contact. I am suspecting this was a wolf spider, a brown recluse, or a hobo spider, but we're not sure which one. But it was big, my friends. Much bigger than the last spider we killed.

Tyler thinks I am crazy, because all squashed up in the plastic bag, the murder victim doesn't look that big. (He wasn't dying after several direct-contact sprays with the supposed "spider killer" so after screaming and panting and nearly passing out I squished him with a shoe.) But his legs were very long and protruding from his body. He was very fast—I had a hard time catching him, in fact. He was at least the size of a quarter; probably bigger.

Sure, the aforementioned spiders are relatively harmless. But I don't want them crawling on or anywhere near me, especially at night when I am asleep. I don't want to wake up with one on my arm. I don't want to find one in my sheets or in my clothes. I don't want to find one in our pantry. I don't want to be trapped with one in the kitchen (I'm glad this hasn't happened...yet, anyway...I don't know what I'd do if I was stuck in there!) I hate bugs. I hate spiders. I shouldn't have to live with this, should I?

I was crying when Tyler got home, so I made him call our landlord. They should be over here tomorrow to check it out...

GIANT SPIDERS

So a lot of you know there's been a bug problem in our house these past few months. Honestly, we can hardly keep it under control. Sunday night we found a GIANT hairy spider crawling across the room and Tyler shouted, "HOLY CRAP! THAT THING IS HUGE!!" I was in the kitchen but knew right away it was a spider, and a big one at that. (I knew it had to be really big if Tyler said something about it. Also, you can see the physical hairs on the spider's back. That's when you know it's big.) So Tyler killed it with a flip-flop and I pestered him for the entire night about spraying for bugs. The spider is now in a ziploc bag as evidence and I have eaten breakfast with it staring at me for two days straight now.

You see, we contacted our landlord a few weeks ago with a bug problem and to our knowledge they haven't sprayed the house yet. We called them up again a few times to remind them, and on Sunday night we left a message on the maintenance line stating we had just found a very large, hairy spider in our house and something had to be done. So do you know what happened? Today a maintenance man came and "sprayed" the windows and doors of our house with Hot Shot Spider Killer. It comes in a can and you can buy it at Walmart.

I'm really ticked off.

But at least he left a note, right? "I left a can of spider killer here. Feel free to use it." Thanks, Steve.

Really? Really? That is the best they can do to free our home from attacking bugs and hairy spiders?? Something has to be done.